For me, this is really quality data. I can see myself and some friends increased our risk level more than we thought we did the last week. Normally this time of year we go bigger after being safer the first 1/2 of the season. That might also contribute to to some of the issues. I also need to reasses my thought that generally trees are a safer bet. Thank you!

This sentence struck me: "The facets were also less continuously weak and consistent [at upper elevations]." We had 6 weeks with basically no new snow, but it was also mid-winter by the calendar, and these days conditons seem to matter less than what day of the week it is. Tons of the easier access terrain at high elevation was just completely skied out (upper LCC/BCC zones, grizzly gulch, patsy, twin lakes, wolverine, flag/emma, anything that can be accessed from a lift bump out of Brighton/Soli, etc.). Additionally, there would be less motive to head to the mid elevations since lower snow totals meant less coverage meant more rocks, stumps, and core shots. This would further concentrate activity in the high elevation zones.  If the wheels came off in Ogden and Provo at high elevations, but not upper Salt Lake zones, what's the difference? People. I think there's a good chance skier compaction interrupted the connectivity of the facet layers in many high elevations zone in the SLC forecast area. I didn't check to see where those 3 upper elevation slides were between March 7 and 19, but I'd put money on them NOT being typically high traffic zones.